GERMANY: Seven, Eight, Xine

Seven, Eight, Nine

President Paul von Hindenburg is strict on one point: he will serve as godfather to no German child except a ninth son. Last week in the Prussian town of Langenberg one Frau Colsman, already mother of six sons, was successfully delivered of boy triplets. Vice Chancellor von Papen stepped up as godfather of one. Chancellor Adolf Hitler as godfather of another. For the third and ninth President von Hindenburg proudly allowed himself to be registered as godfather.

For the festival Storm Troopers and cavalry lined the street from the Colsman...

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